Simple Gifts

One last Christmas story to round out our holiday season! Enjoy!

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The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.... For unto us child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 9: 2, 6-7

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This classic Christmas story speaks for itself. Enjoy!

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One of my favorite Ariel poems of Eliot. I read this at my father's funeral in 1995, and have since committed it to memory. It contains what is perhaps the most powerful self-conscious understatement in all of literature, when the wise men arrive at the Christ-child's position:

And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon

Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory.

Satisfactory, indeed. May each and every one of us find that satisfaction in Christ in this new year of 2022 and ever afterward!

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It is amazing to me that God sometimes gives us exactly what we need to put our feet back on the track. Having spent 25 years as an atheist professor of philosophy, I too was locked in a prison of my own devising. God used that "wasted" time to REASON me back to Christ, and now in The Christian Atheist podcast I seek to help others see Christ as the fusion of faith and reason.

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The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion.

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The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion.

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The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion.

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The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion.

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The Spirit of Christmas, always, is Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, the gift of God to man. That same spirit inhabits this Christmas classic, not just in the three Christmas spirits (past, present and future), but in those who fill its pages with genuine human warmth, strength, and compassion.

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